Hamas Arrests Jihad Attackers Of Israel

Middle East Newsline

March 30, 2009

GAZA CITY [MENL] -- The Hamas regime has begun arresting operatives of theIranian-sponsored Islamic Jihad for unauthorized attacks on Israel. Hamas officials said security forces have been ordered to stopunauthorized missile and rocket strikes from the Gaza Strip. They said the forces arrested several people over the last week on charges of firing rocketsor light weapons into Israel. "We have required all Palestinian factions to request permission for anyresistance activity," a Hamas official said. "Those who fail to do so are inviolation of the law."